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Golden Years Exhibition at Batchelor Institute
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28 August 2024
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Showing at Batchelor Institute (BIITE)’s Coomalie Art Centre this month and into early October is the exhibition Golden Years, commemorating BIITE’s 50th anniversary through the BIITE Art Collection. Curated by BIITE curator Maurice O’Riordan, Golden Years is a celebration of art, education and history through an eclectic mix of artworks from a highly significant but little-known collection.

Golden Years was launched mid-August to coincide with BIITE’s 50th anniversary symposium Learning Journeys, Land & Language. The exhibition comprises 45 artworks in a variety of mediums from artists both established and lesser known. The roll call includes names such as Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, Jimmy Pike, Kitty Kantilla and Mervyn Bishop along with local Kungarakan artists Donnie McGinness and Barbara Taylor Wudjitpul. It includes work by student artists such as Isobel Windy with her winning design for the Institute (then College) logo competition in the mid-1980s. It also includes a bark petition (circa 2000) by Maningrida students calling for a study centre in the community. Their painterly plea was eventually answered and followed by a string of BIITE study centres and annexes throughout the NT.

Batchelor residents will be familiar with BIITE’s former Indigenous Media Unit located in the centre of town. Four doors painted by broadcasting and journalism students have been salvaged from this abandoned facility to find a new home in the collection and as part of Golden Years.

In tandem with the exhibition is the publication All my Country, the Batchelor Institute Art Collection, the first substantive book on this Collection. The title comes from the book’s editor-in-chief Dr Ngatkali Wendy Ludwig, a Kungarakan and Gurindji woman from Darwin and committed lifelong advocate for First Nations education, training and arts. “The BIITE Art Collection, in all its wonderful diversity”, says Ludwig, “essentially celebrates and affirms the artists’ connections to and longing for Country.”

Golden Years shows at Coomalie Art Centre (CAC) until Thursday 10 October 2024. Open Wed-Sat, 10am to 3pm. A range of CAC artworks and giftware is also available for sale with 50% off marked prices for most items. All my Country is available at the exhibition or via Batchelor Institute Press

Enquiries:

email: maurice.o’riordan@batchelor.edu.au

phone: 0474 1666 17

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